> I have a 133MHz Pentium system with an AHA-2940, a Fast SCSI disk and an
> antique Archive Viper 2150S tape drive. If I do a level 0 dump of a
> filesystem from the disk to a tape, it won't stream continuously for
> more than a few seconds. I've tried winding up dump's "b" parameter to
> 700-800 with no obvious effect. This is with NetBSD 1.2 or 1.3.

I'd try piping the data through "buffer" (an old version of which is in
the packages collection) between the dump process and the tape device. 

--apb (Alan Barrett)